Project description

unittest2 is a backport of the new features added to the unittest testing
framework in Python 2.7. It is tested to run on Python 2.4 - 2.6.

To use unittest2 instead of unittest simply replace import unittest with
import unittest2.

Classes in unittest2 derive from the equivalent classes in unittest, so it
should be possible to use the unittest2 test running infrastructure without
having to switch all your tests to using unittest2 immediately. Similarly
you can use the new assert methods on unittest2.TestCase with the standard
unittest test running infrastructure. Not all of the new features in unittest2
will work with the standard unittest test loaders and runners however.

New features include:

addCleanups - better resource management

many new assert methods including better defaults for comparing lists,
sets, dicts unicode strings etc and the ability to specify new default methods
for comparing specific types

assertRaises as context manager, with access to the exception afterwards